CSS Basics

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Welcome to CSS Videos.com. My name is Ashton Sanders and I’m going to be answering a very simple question today, and that is “What is Cascading Style Sheets?”

CSS (or Cascading Style Sheets) works with HTML to define how it it will look. Speaking generally, HTML is used to format a web page. And CSS can be used in conjunction with that to add color, style… where style means defining how it will look.

In theory, you could easily do an entire web page in just HTML. You can use the “<font>” tag to color, but CSS will do this in a universal-type format. It actually makes everything simpler and easier.

So to reiterate what I mean by style: You can take an HTML element, which lets say is just a paragraph. So the HTML will format the page; tell you where the header goes, where the footer goes, and what part of the text is a paragraph, and what part of the text is a heading; what kind of heading it is. Then CSS can come in and tell it to be a blue color, or maybe bold or italics. Give it a background color. These are some simple things that CSS can do. Obviously this isn’t CSS in action but those are things that CSS can do.

And actually CSS can do much more than that and take over a lot of the formatting things that HTML normally does as well. That’s something we’ll be looking into with these videos.

Thank you very much for watching, I hope you enjoy the video.

Ashton Sanders
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